page_title: Mezhyhirya Monastery
section_title: Ownership controversy
hierarchical_section_title: Mezhyhirya Monastery / Ownership controversy
caption_attribution_description: English: Location of Mezhyhirya
context_page_description: The Mezhyhirya Savior-Transfiguration Monastery was an Eastern Orthodox female monastery that was located in the neighborhood of Mezhyhiria.
  The monastery served as a historic Princely residency of Rurik dynasty during the Medieval times located just 10 kilometres to the north of Vyshhorod. Today, the territory is part of the Vyshhorod Raion, Kiev Oblast in northern Ukraine. The location is situated in the Mezhyhirya ravine, on the right bank of the Dnieper River in close proximity to the Kiev water reservoir.
  Founded in 988 AD, the Mezhyhirya Monastery was one of the first monasteries established in the East Slavic state of Kievan Rus'. Throughout its existence, it was destroyed, and then restored numerous times, yet it was not spared destruction by Soviet authorities in 1935. At the time of its height, the Mezhyhirya Monastery was considered a spiritual center of Rus royal Rurikid house and later Cossacks. Currently, the area of the former monastery is located on a fenced-in woodland territory next to Novi Petrivtsi village and is directly connected with a private residence for Ukrainian government officials.
context_section_description: In 2008 the Mezhyhirya residence was amid an ownership controversy between the former Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the new Ukrainian government, led by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. The transfer of the 1.4 km² Mezhyhirya official residence in Novi Petrivtsi, Vyshhorod Raion (district) to the "Nadra Ukraine" firm on July 11, 2007 by Viktor Yanukovych pulled the territory from under government ownership.
caption: Map rendering of Yanukovych's private Mezhyhirya residence.
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